The Western-developed era

These are the Silent Hill games made after the original Japanese Team Silent developers moved on, when Konami handed the survival-horror series to Western studios. Origins (2007), Homecoming (2008), Shattered Memories (2009), Downpour (2012) and the spin-off Book of Memories cover that uneasy transitional decade, when the foggy town kept appearing but the hands shaping it changed with nearly every release.

The era is divisive: Shattered Memories, a psychological reimagining with no combat, has its champions, while others are remembered as competent but lesser echoes of the genre-defining originals. Together they represent a franchise searching for an identity away from its creators. A games-only stretch, and a case study in how hard a signature horror atmosphere is to hand off.

The The Western-developed era franchise spans 5 games in the CrossBinge catalog.

Part of Silent Hill.